Dr. David Butterfield

Before embarking on a career in neurological research, Dr. David Butterfield was a high school teacher in Zimbabwe. His personal hobbies include weight lifting, swimming and canoeing.

Currently the director of the UK Center of Membrane Sciences, the director of the Free Radical Biology and Metabolism Shared Resource Facility at the Markey Cancer Center, and the faculty associate of the Sanders-Brown Center on ageing, Dr. Butterfield’s research focuses on the effects of free radical oxidative stress on age-related disorders like Alzheimer’s.